🚀 go-pugleaf

I thought this would be so easy..

The task:

Create a command procedure that will run an EXE in batch that is now being run
interactively.  Easy enough, no full screen- just simple prompts.

The problem:

The program (a .EXE) is menu driven giving you options, then more menus
with more options.  To go one back (pop up one menu, or exit), you hit the
CTRL-Z key.  I cannot find the magic to make ctrl-z as important as it is
when in interactive mode.

You think ^Z is the same in either, right?  So did I.  But then explain why
the F10 key is the same as ^Z, when they are completely different keys (meaning
they send different sequences back to the vax) BTW- neither CTRL-Z or F10
seems to mean  EXIT in batch.

The point is, the program wants the special input that hitting CTRL-Z or
F10 in interactive mode sends back to the program.  Does anyone have any idea
how inbed it into a file?

I have tried:

1)  putting the ^Z (not carrot Z but he real thing :-)
2)  putting the F10 Escape sequence
3)  Ripping my hair out and steadying my aim at the crt!

I'm open to suggestions.  Source code for the .EXE is not availiable (3rd
party product).  This simple, 1hour task has become a fiasco!  Oh, here's an
example command file that is built by the command procedure:

$!
$DMS
1
3
059
069
^Z
^Z
$exit

where:  DMS runs the program, 1 is shop maintenace, 3 is change shop, 059
is original shop number, 069 is new shop number, ^z [doesn't work] pops you
to the top menu, and ^z [again doesn't work] exits the program.


Any help by you Gurus would be appreciated!

ADV(thanks)ANCE


Perry
perry@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu